DiscoPosse Podcast

Rahul Sidhu is the CEO and Co-Founder of SPIDR Tech, which created the world’s first automated customer service platform for public safety agencies. SPIDR Tech has served over 500,000 911-callers and 150,000 crime victims in North America and is a three-time GovTech 100 Company.

We explore the ways in which using digital platforms can fundamentally change the community policing experience and how these tools have already enhanced life for the good of many communities, plus what we can do to keep moving in the right direction.

Check out SPIDR Tech here:  https://www.spidrtech.com/

Connect with Rahul Sidhu on LinkedIn here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulsidhu/ 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Daniel H. Gallancy is the CEO and a founding member of Atakama, a NYC-based software company. Atakama hardens security by providing a fully distributed cryptographic key management system as well as the elimination of shared secrets (passwords, ID numbers, etc.)

Our discussion spans the deep technical side of distributed key, passwordless security, the people side of security and privacy, plus we dive into blockchain and cryptocurrency and much more. 

Check out Atakama here: https://www.atakama.com/

Connect with Daniel on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gallancy/

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Dan Burcaw has founded companies on the forefront of profound technology waves: open source software, the smartphone, and cloud computing. He describes himself first as a serial entrepreneur; a repeat startup founder and CEO with his latest company being Nami ML.

We explore a deep discussion around how leveraging services and systems to let your teams do what matters is both powerful in business and life.  We also talk about how Dan has created and operated his companies and some great personal insights into being a leader.

Check out Nami ML here:  https://nami.ml 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Chris Gherardini is the President/Owner at Turnkey Technologies Inc. Turnkey offers end-to-end professional services including design, project management, implementation, application maintenance, integration services, development, analytics, training, and support services for Microsoft Dynamics solutions.

We talk about the process of building and growing a consulting-led business, the way Chris infuses culture into his team, and how that was tested with a very challenging life event.

Check out Turnkey Technologies here: https://www.turnkeytec.com/

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/christiano-gherardini-73513019/ 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Chris Cummings is a strategy consultant for Data-Focused Tech Disruptors driving go-to-market success and strategic pivots, from product-market fit through solution launch, market adoption and sales acceleration. 

We discuss the breadth of the storage market, how FalconStor has held on to a strong customer base, the change in operational patterns with storage due to cloud adoption, and also the work Chris does with Life Moves. 

Follow the latest on FalconStor at https://falconstor.com

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccummings7/ 

See what good is happening with Life Moves here:  https://www.lifemoves.org/ 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Darin Haener is the President and Co-Founder at Fermentable LLC. FermentAble was created by a professional brewer who experienced first hand how frustrating it is to manage a brewery’s day-to-day operations.  

We explore the science of brewing, how being in the brewing industry drew Darin to solve the problem Fermentable solves, and lots of lessons and discussion on bootstrapping and building a SaaS. We also dig into why to choose Ruby on Rails or similar DSLs and a lot of fun chat on the tech behind Fermentable.

Check out Fermentable at https://getfermentable.com 

Connect with Darin on LinkedIn to chat more: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darinhaener/ 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Eden Green Technology is a vertical farming technology company. They build, manage, and license a greenhouse technology platform that increases local access to nutritious produce, and provides a non-interrupted food supply, all through its turnkey urban agricultural model.

Eddy shares the values, outcomes, and vision of why he joined Eden Green and also what drives him to do good as a leader with Eden Green and Buzzshift, his digital strategy agency.

Check out Eden Green Technology here: https://edengreen.com

Follow Eden Green on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EdenGreenTech 

Follow Eddy at his website:  https://badrina.com 

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Emily Omier is a Positioning Consultant who helps companies confidently give their product a label and focus their marketing and sales on the types of companies and engineers that will value it most.  

Emily's knowledge and experience in successful positioning and product market fit for open source platforms is something that makes this a real must-listen as we explore so much of the world of product management, product marketing, and much more. 

Follow Emily here at her website:  https://www.emilyomier.com/

Listen to Emily at the Business of Open Source podcast here:  https://www.emilyomier.com/podcast

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee

Leon Kuperman is the CTO and Co-founder of Cast.ai. He's a Technology Executive with 20+ years of experience in product management, software design and development all the way through to production deployment.

Our conversation spans everything from the challenges of Kubernetes, multiocloud, K8s operations, Kubernetes on the cloud, building enterprise software, distributed teams, and a ton more.  Lots of great lessons in here.

Check out Cast.ai at their website https://cast.ai/

You can spin up your own Cast.ai environment easily there and please do give it a try!

This episode is sponsored by Veeam Software and the 4-Step Guide to Delivering Extraordinary Software Demos that Win Deals and Diabolical Coffee